H Quotes
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“Humboldt believed it is only with our feelings, our senses, and our imaginations—that is, with the faculties of human subjectivity—that we can ever penetrate nature’s secrets. “Nature everywhere speaks to man in a voice” that is “familiar to his soul.”
Source: How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1) The knowledge of the Earth and its inhabitants. 2) The discovery of the higher laws of nature, which govern the universe, men, animals, plants, minerals. 3) The discovery of new forms of life. 4) The discovery of territories hitherto but imperfectly known, and their various productions. 5)
The acquaintance with new species of the human race--- their manners, their language and the historical traces of their culture.'
What may be accomplished in a lifetime---and seldom or never is.”
Source: The Art of Travel
“Humdrum is Wicked”
“Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon”
“Hume emphasized education and experience: men of taste acquire certain abilities that lead to agreement about which authors and artworks are the best. Such people, he felt, eventually will reach consensus, and in doing so, they set a ‘standard of taste’ which is universal. … Hume said men of taste must ‘preserve minds free from prejudice’, but thought no one should enjoy immoral attitudes or ‘vicious manners’ in art … Kant too spoke about judgements of taste but he was more concerned with explaining judgements of Beauty.
He aimed to show that good judgements in aesthetics are grounded in features of artworks themselves, not just in us and our preferences. Kant tried to describe our human abilities to perceive and categorize the world around us. There is a complex interplay among our mental faculties including perception, imagination, and intellect or judgement. Kant held that in order to function in the world to achieve our human purposes, we label much of what we sense, often in fairly unconscious ways.”
Source: Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Freeland, Oxford University Press
“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical and psychological thought. In doing this they ignored the power of making judgments. In every judgment there is an act of verification or of contradiction, an approval or rejection, and the standard for these judgments, the idea of truth, must be something external to that on what it is acting. If there are nothing but perceptions, then all perceptions must have an equal validity, and there can be no standard by which to form a real world. Empiricism in this fashion really destroys the reality of experience, and what is called positivism is no more than nihilism. The idea of a standard of truth, the idea of truth, cannot lie in experience. In every judgment this idea of the existence of truth is implicit. The claim to real knowledge depends on this capacity to judge, involves the conception of the possibility of truth in the judgment.”
Source: Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
“Hume no mila, Jaisa mila
Apne matlab ka bhooka mila”
Source: Sukoon
“Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.”
“Humean montañas de basura a ambos lados de la carretera. Seres andrajosos suben y bajan por ellas. Un adolescente, recostado sobre una pila de cartones y trapos, lee.
Ha encontrado un libro y lo lee con dificultad, pero hechizado.
Para él ha desaparecido el basural, sus manos heladas y sucias pasan las hojas del libro.
El adolescente ha terminado de leer su libro. Se encienden estrellas sobre la basura. Es la primera vez que lee un libro desde el comienzo hasta el final. Es la primera vez que descubre que alguien que no lo conoce y a quien nunca vio, sabe exactamente lo que le pasa y lo que piensa. Aprieta el libro. Llora. O casi. Acaba de comprender que no está solo en el universo. Hay alguien que lo entiende y se lo ha contado por medio de un libro. Vuelve a la primera página, a la primera frase. Se repite a sí mismo el nombre del autor. Es un escritor de otro país, de Alemania”
“Humid seal of soft affections,
Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.”
Source: The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns
“Humidity could be at 100% or near to zero, depending on the weather atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.”
“Humikab ang dagat na parang leon
masarap sanang tumalon pero
BAWAL MAGTAPON NG BASURA
sabi ng alon.”
Source: Salvaged Poems
“Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.”
Source: The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
“Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.”
Source: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“Humiliating for my freedom ...... will not never be been something that gets used to it!”
“Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .”
“Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.”
“Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.”
“Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Humiliation is a great silencer. Isn’t that how people are played, consciously or unconsciously? Take away the capacity for humiliation, and there is nothing left to play with.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction
“Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.”
Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
“Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.”
Source: One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne
“Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life
“Humiliation is the biggest assault.”
Source: Jadu
“Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.”
Source: Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness – Classic Devotional Meditations on the Character of Christ
“Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.”
“Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.”
“Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.”
Source: Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run
“Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.”
“Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.”
“Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.”
“Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.”
“Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.”
“Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).”
“Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us.”
“Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God”
“Humility and compassion are infinite. They are our only refuge and redemption.”
Source: Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity
“Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.”
“Humility and feedback are the only true measures of a greater leader”
Source: Time Value of Money: Timing Income
“Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.”
“Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.”
“Humility and gratitude go hand in hand... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions.”
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... The poorest Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.”
“Humility and open-mindedness are a shield to keep your foot out of your mouth.”
“Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous
“Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.”
“Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.”